Oh wow, that one will be fun. Many are lessons about market-readiness: it is not enough to have good technology; you must fit the market need AND maturation. We, for example, have held off many technologies due to lack of market readiness. Our ability to somewhat accurately time our technological evolution due to excellent long term strategic vision has been central to our success. Many other companies had some really good stuff, but they horribly mis-timed the market. But 2000 was a heady time and many thought the market was much more ready than it was for broadband. The Crash sobered things, with the major buyers (big carriers) all going into deep hunker-down mode, indeed for their very commercial lives. Even at that, few carriers were sparred major pain and that pain was well-distributed down the supply chain! Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Stroh Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:18 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Re: old WLAN history Patrick: You just accelerated the launch of Broadband Wireless Internet Access Deadpool - http://www.bwiadeadpool.com. It was, and will probably continue to be a low-priority project, but my files are just BULGING with the dead BWIA companies (not even COUNTING the dead service providers.) It will be fun rehashing these stories. Some of my favorite dead companies are Malibu Networks, Radiant Networks, and especially Caly Networks. Thinking about my files, the list of dead BWIA vendors must run into the hundreds by now. In my reading of the announcements WaveRider --> Vecima Networks, I don't think Charles made the transition. Thanks, Steve On Feb 16, 2007, at Feb 16 09:25 AM, Patrick Leary wrote: > Well, for sure this industry never stands still does it Steve? As one > fond of change, that one of the things I most enjoy. I knew from > people > there that V-com has become Vecima (much better 'new millienium' type > name), but I did not know they absorbed Wave/Waverider. Did Charles > (Brown) join Vecima too? > > Years ago when the Cirronet folks were creating their company out of > their successful industrial wireless space, I sat down with of the > principals. They really thought they had the secret sauce. I was very > cautionary, trying to impart how challenging the market was/(is!). > They > had a hard and not especially gratifying few years. > > I forgot about Arraycom sold off iBurst. Sigh. It made me "remember > how > much I have forgotten" about lost companies in this business. Remember > ioSpan? How about Beamreach? Remember they even had a successful > Verizon > trial fours years ago. > > And then how about all the companies bought, collapsed into and > morphed > over the years? Someday we should build a full "BWIA family tree" of > sorts. Fun examples (I might be a little off [is that Fruedian?]) just > from perhaps the 4 original wireless LAN pioneers: > > Glenair spun off Western Multiplex>WMUX buys the original WLAN pioneer > Proxim and keeps Proxim name> Proxim buys Farallon and Proxim buys > Agere>Proxim sold in bankruptcy to YDI who had recently "bought" > Terabeam>YDI/Terabeam dba Proxim > > And within that story is Agere: Lannet spins off>LANair pieces become > part of Lucent's original pioneering WLAN group>Lucent spins out Agere > which comes out with Orinoco which ends up at Proxim... > > And fewer would know the others with ties from LANair formed original > WLAN pioneer BreezeCOM, which later merged with Floware to became > Alvarion in 2001... > > How many remember that Telxon created original WLAN pioneer Aironet > which was bought by Cisco. > > And all that is one tiny fraction of all that has taken place and does > not even cover the rise of the UL BWA application itself where we were > also a principal pioneer on the product side (but we were only smartly > following the lead of the original WISPs, most who were using our gear > that pre-dated DSSS) as the others stayed in WLAN. > > I wonder what the next 12 years will bring? > > > Patrick Leary > AVP WISP Markets > Alvarion, Inc. > o: 650.314.2628 > c: 760.580.0080 > Vonage: 650.641.1243 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Steve Stroh 425-939-0076 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Writing about BWIA again! - www.bwianews.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(190). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
